This thread is aimed for fans to have a serious discussion in. If you hate this game, leave now. If you want to say this game is crap, fine. Just don't do it here.

Info
RuneScape is the online massive multiplayer Java game created by Jagex Ltd. It's played directly in your browser. The world is huge and there's a lot to do in the game. There's Lots skills to be trained, minigames to be played with other players, quests and many dungeons to explore.

The main classes are Warrior, Ranger and Mage. You can be any of them at any time, there's no class you're bound to be when you first create your character.

Quests
The quests has really deep stories. There's no "go there, kill that, bring the loot back to me" quests like in many MMOs out there. The Jagex story writes put many hours into every quest to make it interesting and tell its own story. This is one of the many reasons I like this game.

Skills
There's many skills to be trained and many of them are really rewarding. For example I will take the Mining and Smithing skills. You can mine your ore in mines. The higher your mining level is the better ores you can mine. You take the ore to a furnace to melt it, then smith it into armor and weapons you can use or sell.

Magic
The game has three spellbooks.
The mordern spellbook focuses on elemental spells to damage what you fight. It also contains a number of teleportation spells you make your way through the lands, but also spells to weaken your opponent.
The ancient spellbook contains many extremely powerful spells. At level 94 magic you can cast the famous "Ice Barrage" spell, which deals a great ammount of damage to the target, and everything that's close to the target, and make them unable to move for a number of seconds.
The Lunar spellbook focuses on all day life spells. There's spells for healing you, healing an ally, cure someone from poision, group teleportation and even spells for filling vials with water and baking a pie!

Economy
RuneScape's economy is interesting. Most trading is done between players, and not game controlled shops, so the game gets a very unique economic behavior (for a game). Prices of things goes up and down just like in the real world.

Player Killing
RuneScape had problems with real world trading. Thousands of bots were making in-game money and selling it for real money and completely destroying the RuneScape economy. Jagex tackled this problem by limiting the amount of wealth that could be given between two players. Killing players in the area called "Wilderness" made they drop their whole inventory and wealth could be transfered that way, so Jagex removed Player Killing from the game. PK-ing could then only be done in certain minigames.

Graphics
Many people complain about the graphics. I don't care much myself, but recently Jagex updated the graphics in their game. The textures and models now looks much better, and proper AA is now supported.

ok theres some kind of exploit... i was 1 iteming and some guy attacked me, i attacked back and i got a skull.. nearly lost claws because i wasnt paying attention

it was in single combat near edge and nobody else was around

twice now

yea.... 3 times and this guy definitely knew i would skull

Did you by chance skull on him at any time before that happened?

Sounds like you're describing something like this:

That's caused by the player first skulling on the lurer, then dying. Then the lurer goes "Ok, bring some good stuff, and I'll skull on you this time". You go in with some good stuff, as soon as you see him attack you, you attack, and BLAM. Skulled. It's because you skulled on him recently, so he gets to attack you without skulling or something.

Why? And also there was a link posted somewhere in the last thread (numerous times) about how to 'get rich quick' (or not), you might want to post that in the OP, as everyone went nuts every time it was asked how to make money.

Why? And also there was a link posted somewhere in the last thread (numerous times) about how to 'get rich quick' (or not), you might want to post that in the OP, as everyone went nuts every time it was asked how to make money.

Botting is not allowed in the game itself, so is not a part of the game. Thus does not belong in the op.

To make it clear, i think botting is ok, But does not belong in op.

Also, i dont want to add people to the clanlist that want to try out runescape, and get banned after 2 weeks op botting. So i dont support botting for new players.